Welcome! This year the Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School celebrates15 years of excellence in the performing arts.

The Anthony Bean Community Theater (ABCT) was established in Spring 2000 to meet the growing demands of New Orleans area residents seeking a quality, culturally diverse, performing arts venue. The theater also met the needs of individuals seeking to learn the art of acting, set design and theatre management. In recent years, ABCT has become a vehicle to enter New Orleans' booming "Hollywood South" film industry.

ABCT is unique in that it is not only a major theater production company, but a year-round, open enrollment acting school serving both adults and children with an eclectic group of courses designed to meet the basic needs of individuals seeking careers in stage and screen acting, set design and theatre management.  

ABCT believes that the arts have the power to transform people's lives. Our Mission is simple: "to inspire those we serve through the magic of the arts."  The Hallmark of ABCT and that which separates us from "all the rest" is - diversity.  ABCT proudly presents the most diverse theater schedule in the New Orleans area.  Our programing fare includes, the classics; Shakespeare, August Wilson and Tennessee Williams as well as popular drama (Reflections and Misery), comedy (Jar the Floor, Steal Away), and musicals (The Color Purple, Simply Irma and The Phyllis Hyman Story). Most importantly, ABCT mounts original plays such as I'd Rather Be Rich and Say Amen, and showcases our talented kids in perennial favorites: Cats, The Wiz, High School Musical and 504.  

The goal of the ABCT Acting School is to provide an intense, high quality learning and performing opportunity in an atmosphere where young people are encouraged to set goals, take risks and view mistakes as an avenue for learning. ABCT opens students up to the greatness that lies within them and creates an awareness that the Arts are a constructive vehicle of personal expression.

Anthony Bean Community Theater boasts a full professional portfolio including video DVD Productions and an ABCT clothing line. In addition to children and adult acting classes, ABCT offers a youth theater, an after-school program, and the Anthony Bean Community Theater City Choir.  During the summer months, working in conjunction with the New Orleans Recreation Department Commission - ABCT also operates a summer day camp.

We at ABCT wish to express our sincere gratitude for your ongoing support over the past 15 years and we urge you to purchase your PASS for the upcoming season. Thank you for your ongoing support. We look forward to seeing you at our next production.

Come and celebrate our Anniversary and you will agree.

"ABCT IS MORE THAN THEATER

IT'S CULTURE!"

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4 years have come and gone since the Anthony Bean Community Theater completed Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson's Century Cycle, becoming one of three theaters to do so. Staying true to its August in September Series, the Anthony Bean Community Theater is excited to present Fences, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by August Wilson. Playing September 11 through 27. Fences follows an African American father and his son as each struggle through unfulfilled hopes and shattered dreams in the 1950s. It is the sixth in Wilson's 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, chronicling the lives of African-Americans in each decade of the 20th century. Directed by Anthony Bean and featuring the Wilsonian Actors, a catch phase thought of by ABCT's veteran actor Will Williams, a prefix given to actors who have performed 3 or more of August Wilson's plays. The award-winning Wilsonian Actors performing will be Will Williams as Troy Maxson, Gwendolyne Foxworth as Rose, Harold X. Evans as Jim Bono, Alfred Aubry as Gabriel Maxson, Tony Felix as Cory Maxson, DC PauL as Lyons Maxson, Emani Johnson as Raynell Maxson and as understudy for Cory Maxson will be Emmanuel Simon. 4 years have come and gone since the Anthony Bean Community Theater completed Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner August Wilson's Century Cycle, becoming one of three theaters to do so. Staying true to its August in September Series, the Anthony Bean Community Theater is excited to present Fences, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play by August Wilson. Playing September 11 through 27. Fences follows an African American father and his son as each struggle through unfulfilled hopes and shattered dreams in the 1950s. It is the sixth in Wilson's 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, chronicling the lives of African-Americans in each decade of the 20th century. Directed by Anthony Bean and featuring the Wilsonian Actors, a catch phase thought of by ABCT's veteran actor Will Williams, a prefix given to actors who have performed 3 or more of August Wilson's plays. The award-winning Wilsonian Actors performing will be Will Williams as Troy Maxson, Gwendolyne Foxworth as Rose, Harold X. Evans as Jim Bono, Alfred Aubry as Gabriel Maxson, Tony Felix as Cory Maxson, DC PauL as Lyons Maxson, Emani Johnson as Raynell Maxson and as understudy for Cory Maxson will be Emmanuel Simon.

Fences is a bittersweet drama, compassionate, moving and thoughtful. It is a play about family, responsibility, love, friendship and respect. This is August Wilson at his best: challenging the Ame ri can dream through a poetic, powerful and deeply personal story. It's 1957 and Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be - to survive. Maxson has stepped up to the plate too many times in his life only to go down swinging. Shut out of the big leagues by prejudice, the former Negro League home run king is now a garbage collector with little future. He tries to do right by his family, but when his youngest son Cory shows promise on the high school football team, Troy must come to terms with his past disappointments or risk tearing his family apart.

The Cast of Fences. (L.) Alfred Aubry, DC PauL, Harold X. Evans, Will Williams, Emani Johnson, Gwendolyne Foxworth and Tony Felix.

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